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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Martin, Voyage to St Kilda. CUL-DAR85.A53. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and John van Wyhe, edited by John van Wyhe 3.2022. RN2

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).

The brown crayon number '25' indicates that this document was filed by Darwin in a portfolio for the subject of expression.

[A53]

M. Martins Voyage to St. Kilda. (4th. Edit 1753) p. 17 - Sheep mostly speckled, very large horns, Horses red-coloured, smooth skinned, cattle, large & small with foreheads white & black of small stature Martin

p. 37 People of a fair complexion, "such as are not, are natives only for an age or two, but their offspring prove fairer than themselves.

The men have very thin beards, & these do not appear till they arrive at age of 30 years or more.

/over

[A53v]

D'Orbigny describes one race of Man with very large Beards - as have inhabitants of Kurile Isld

Eminently variable

Martins St Kilda p. 18

= p. 23, 30 & other birds =

p. 37 39

Martin, Martin. 1753. A voyage to St. Kilda. The remotest of all the Hebrides or Western Isles of Scotland. London: D. Browne and L. Davis.

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